She’s waiting to collect two drinks for her and Bohdi.
“I’m glad to be back. What about you, honey?”
She nods. “Yeah, I’m glad that’s over.”
“You and Bohdi seem to be getting along well,” I say, winking at her.
She laughs softly. “We really do get along well, but he’s so closed off. I still don’t know anything about him. He just doesn’t open up...at all. I tell him everything, but he gives me nothing.”
Yes, Bohdi certainly is an interesting one.
“I’m sure he’ll come ‘round. Give him time. Maybe he has a past that’s hard to talk about.”
I know how that feels.
“Yeah, I’m certain he does. Come and have a drink with us?”
I nod, and we walk outside to a large wooden table where everyone is sitting. I sit beside Cohen, and Merleigh sits across from us next to Bohdi. He gives her a nod when she places the drink down in front of him. There is a warmth in his eyes when he looks at her, a depth that certainly goes deeper than friendship. I wonder what he’s so afraid to share with her?
What kind of secrets is he keeping?
We talk for hours, laughing and joking, and as the night slowly goes on, everyone unwinds. The pressure of the last few weeks dissipates. It’s about seven p.m. when a car pulls into the club parking lot. I figure it must be Zariah and Kendric, coming back from whatever it is that kept them from being here earlier, but instead, a young woman and two children get out of the car.
“They must have the wrong address or be lost,” I say, watching as the woman carries one of the kids on her hip and holds the other one's hand as she walks into the club.
She approaches the group, and up close, I see she is very pretty. Long, blonde hair that’s very surfer type. It’s not soft and flowing, but it’s not a dreadlock style. It’s kind of in-between. Like she has spent her days in the sun and the sand. She has piercing blue eyes and tanned skin. The little kids are the same, both of them clearly boys and both of them sporting long locks of blond hair, blue eyes, and little beaded necklaces around their necks. They’re gorgeous kids.
“Sorry to bother you,” the woman says, her voice soft. “I was looking for someone and was told he might be here.”
Alarick stands and smiles at her. “Name is Alarick. I’m President here. Who are you lookin’ for?”
“His name is Bohdi.”
Bohdi.
No way.
“Are you a friend of his?” Alarick asks.
The woman shakes her head. “No, no, I’m not. Is he here?”
Alarick nods. “He is.”
Alarick sends Mykel to go inside and get Bohdi. He and Merleigh just disappeared in there for another drink, but they’ve been gone a while. I stare at the woman and kids, wondering who she is? Is it possible she is his sister? Maybe a friend? He has never mentioned having kids, so I couldn’t see them being his.
Mykel returns a minute later, with Bohdi and Merleigh following him.
The second Bohdi lays eyes on the woman, he freezes. His entire body goes stiff, and he stares at her like he has seen a ghost. His eyes widen, and his jaw tightens. I look back at her and see she is staring at him almost the same way. Her face is swirling full of emotion and heartbreak as she stares at him.
“Isla?” he murmurs, his voice low.
“You’re here. I thought the lead was wrong, that you couldn’t possibly be here, but...”
“What’s goin’ on?” Alarick asks, looking between the two of them. “Bohdi, is this a friend of yours?”
“I’m not a friend,” Isla says, her voice cracking. “I’m his wife.”
What?
Everyone in the room falls silent.
Merleigh looks like she’s been struck as she turns and stares in horror at Bohdi.
He glances at her, giving her an expression as if to say ‘I’m sorry’ but she turns away and disappears. Oh, Merleigh. That poor girl.
Nobody saw this coming.
That’s Bohdi’s wife, and those are clearly his children.
What in the ever-loving hell is he doing here?
“And he,” Isla points to Bohdi, her face hard, a tear rolling down her cheek, “is meant to be dead.”
A gasp can be heard in the group.
Dead?
He’s meant to be dead?
What the hell is going on here?
Alarick looks to Bohdi and carefully asks, “You want to explain this?”
“No,” Bohdi says, his voice hard.
“These are your children,” Isla says. “I am your wife. We thought you were dead.”
This is messy.
So messy.
“Can we do this somewhere else?” Bohdi asks, his eyes falling on the boys clinging to her.
It makes sense now I look at them. They’re just like him.
Isla nods, and the two of them disappear into the darkness.
I turn to Cohen. “What the hell just happened?”
“Fucks me, but whatever it is...it’s fuckin’ bad.”
That’s one way of putting it.
Bohdi has a wife and kids.
A wife and kids who thought he was dead?
We all knew he had a story.
We just didn’t know the story was going to be so twisted.
Things are about to get interesting around here.
THE END
Bohdi and Merleigh’s story will be coming to you in December 2020 and is the FINAL book in the King’s Descendants MC series. I can’t wait to wrap this story up for you, in a nice pretty bow, but you know...it has to get worse before it gets better...right? He he.
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